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-----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:06 AM To: Ross Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Archiving and Restoring Snapshots On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Ross wrote: > I agree, mailing that to all Sun customers is something I think is > likely to turn around and bite you. Some points to help clarify the situation: 1. There is no other way to archive a dataset than using a snapshot 2. You cannot build a zpool on a tape 3. The stability of the protocol is only a problem if it becomes impossible to run some version of OpenSolaris on hardware that is needed to receive the snapshot. Given the ubiquity of virtualization and the x86 legacy, I don't think this is a problem for at least the expected lifetime of the storage medium. > A lot of people are now going to use that to archive their data, and > some of them are not going to be happy when months or years down the > line they try to restore it and find that the 'zfs receive' just > fails, with no hope of recovering their data. > > And they're not going to blame the device that's corrupted a bit, > they're going to come here blaming Sun and ZFS. Archiving to a > format with such a high risk of loosing everything sounds like > incredibly bad advice. Especially when the article actually uses > the term "create archives for long-term storage". > > Long term storage doesn't mean "storage that could break with the > next upgrade", or "storage that will fail if even a single bit has > been corrupted anywhere in the process". Sun really need to decide > what they are doing with zfs send/receive because we're getting very > mixed messages now. Data integrity is a problem for all archiving systems, not just ZFS. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
